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Have you heard?
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 14:20
by SinbadEV
In a bid to completely take over the Internet (and are we complaining? really?), Google has started offering an Instant Messenging (text and voice chat =>
http://www.google.com/talk/ ), I havn't tried it out but I intend to when I get home.
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 14:27
by Kixxe
I hope trillian connect to it... it's Icq, Msn, Yahoo AND Irc in one programs. It's Great!
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 14:31
by Maelstrom
Hey well I have it. Add my email from my profile if anyone wants to chat. Looks very... Plain right now. But its bound to get better. All google stuff does eventually.
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 14:40
by SinbadEV
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/ ... swer=24077
Looks like it's based on the Jabber protocol, so Trillian is already supported.
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 22:30
by SwiftSpear
Man, I swear, in a few years people will just call it the 'googlenet'
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 23:13
by Zoombie
but then again, isent Googlenet a really really cool name?
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 23:44
by aGorm
No one will call it anything. Just like nowadays most people say I was using my computer and i found out how to change the start bar to a different colour. When they mean I was using windows and I found out how to change the start bar colour.
Google is alredy practiclyt synomous with teh words "searched the net".
However i must agree GoogleNet is a very cool name, but watch it they might nick it!
aGorm
Posted: 25 Aug 2005, 02:46
by FizWizz
why are the only choices "yes" and "yes"?
I use AltaVista.
Posted: 25 Aug 2005, 03:20
by SinbadEV
Because you have too much stupid in your head!
Posted: 25 Aug 2005, 10:08
by Michilus_nimbus
everybody add michilus.nimbus (curly thingy) gmail (dot thingy) com!
Posted: 25 Aug 2005, 14:58
by genblood
Google this and Google that ...
Don't count Microsoft out ... Remember Netscape .... RealAudio
They where the talk and in a few years they crashed and buried.
Microsoft moves slow, but they always get their way in the end.
Just think about it, you might not have what you have today
without Microsoft... :idea:
Google stocks are over priced and will mostly likely come
crashing to earth in the coming months.
Posted: 25 Aug 2005, 15:21
by Sheekel
Have any one you seen Google Earth? It's absolutly amazing. Google took thousands of sattelite images from space and made a complete map of the world. Every street name, every business, every dirt road in kansas. The resolution gets worse in areas that "dont matter" (or are unpopulated). You can type in your address and it will zoom to 300m above your house from space! Get it here (free version, don't bother with the $400 pro). It's scary to think the government can see the tacs on our roof and the petals on my mom's flowers....from space (though they most likely had this 10 years ago)
http://earth.google.com/
Posted: 25 Aug 2005, 21:42
by [K.B.] Napalm Cobra
Time to get out those tinfoil hats

Posted: 25 Aug 2005, 22:52
by Zoombie
That is SOOO cool! HA! Sam (my nebbour) now i can spy on you WITHOUT telescopes!
Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 01:03
by PauloMorfeo
genblood wrote:...
Just think about it, you might not have what you have today
without Microsoft... :idea:
...
Indeed. Probably much better operating systems due to competition. :idea:
Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 04:33
by FizWizz
PauloMorfeo wrote:
Indeed. Probably much better operating systems due to competition. :idea:
Ouch, burn!
I am NOT defending Microsoft here, but maybe Microsoft has created some kind of standardization here with its monopolization. That might have been beneficial, but it could also be irrelevant, but I wouldn't know because I'm not a tech-head. Could someone enlighten me?
Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 05:33
by GrOuNd_ZeRo
an94 dot abakan at gmail dot com here.
good luck adding me men!
Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 07:01
by [K.B.] Napalm Cobra
Standards such as Explorer?
Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 09:06
by Maelstrom
ugh... Intenet Explorer and Standards do not go together. Not even in the same room. Possibly, if were lucky, they might be on the same planet. Unlikley though. IE is bad. Thats not a good point in Microsoft's History.
Posted: 26 Aug 2005, 18:12
by FizWizz
Okay, maybe not then, I won't suggest it again. I agree too, that IE is bad. I've long since made the switch to a good 3rd party browser